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Behind UAE Detentions, Fears of a Transnational Brotherhood Plot Rori Donaghy writes on the treatment of seventy-seven Emirati men arrested in July and the intimidation of their wives, and argues that this treatment reflects the authorities’ fear of the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region, on Al-Akhbar English.

Saudi Arabia to grant $100m to Palestinians A news report on the financial grant made by Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian government, which is struggling financially after Israel decided to withhold Palestinian tax revenues, on Al Jazeera English.

End of assassinations in Yemen? Nasser Arrabyee speculates whether the arrest of a terrorist cell and the trial of ten al-Qaeda suspects, who are thought to be responsible for the wave of assassinations of soldiers and officers last year in Yemen, will put an end to assassinations, in Al-Ahram Weekly.